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Qld Education Minister meets to discuss school closure misinformation

By Melinda Howells
Tue 24 Sep 2013, 3:21 PM AEST

State Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek is meeting representatives of Brisbane's Nyanda State High School this afternoon to explain how they were given incorrect information about when it would close.

A recording obtained by the ABC confirmed that a government-appointed consultant told a public meeting that this year's Year 11 students would be able to finish their schooling at Nyanda next year.

The State Government later announced the school will close at the end of this year.

Mr Langbroek says it is time to move ahead with that transition plan.

"I won't be changing my decision which is one that I'm confident is in the best interest of all of those students," he said.

"But it is important that I give the explanation to those parents given that they were given some information which turned out to be not quite correct."